Mallika Das Sutar

Our time is riddled with hatred, discrimination, conflicts, wars, and ecological crises, spreading a profound fear that human civilisation might collapse in the near future. Mallika Das Sutar's works embody these uncertainties and fragilities that we live in today. Simultaneously, many of her works point to various ecological aspects and components, which we have ignored, ill-used, and lost. Through her drawings and paintings, videos, soil works, Site-specific installations, and performances, Mallika tries to question the popular notion of modernity, which is largely backed by inordinate consumerism. And her works are often rooted in the mundane' the everyday life and the surroundings and develop through exchange and collaboration with the residents. Mallika's works also talk about and activate ways of repair and revival of habitats, species, water bodies, seeds, foods, traditional knowledge, eventually transmitting a buoyant positivity about our social and ecological future.
Mallika Das Sutar is also part of the collective art space ChanderHaat, based in Kolkata.